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At that time, when Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva spoke the mantra, the trichiliocosm, extending even to the Heaven of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception, shook in six ways. The Akanistha Heaven and the Mahesvara Heaven were unsettled. All there became greatly alarmed; every evil ghost cried out loudly, underwent great suffering, and fled in all directions, not knowing where to escape.

Then the transformation body of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva told the great assembly and the classes of evil ghosts and spirits: “If you do not comply with my mantra but act in opposition to it, your heads will shatter.”

This mantra can break apart mountains and cause the great ocean to dry up. This mantra can crush the asura armies and protect all lands. This mantra can subdue all evil ghosts and spirits, all constellations, all poisons and malign influences, all illnesses, and all evil persons. This mantra can overcome the devas of the Thirty-Three Heavens and cause them all to submit.

If a good man is able to recite and uphold this mantra, that person will possess indescribable awesome power. This mantra can cause its reciter to attain wealth and freedom. It can also cause others to cherish and remember that person throughout their lives, and all wishes will be fulfilled according to that person’s intentions.

If one wishes to subdue hostile maras, one should burn Guggulu incense and recite my Body Mantra twenty-one times.

If one wishes to cause everyone to cherish oneself, empower a willow twig twenty-one times and hold it in the mouth; one will immediately be loved and respected.

If one wishes to attain eloquence and wisdom, empower calamus 1,008 times and rub it over the heart; one will immediately attain unobstructed eloquence. Form the Mudra of the Dharani Mother’s Heart Mantra.

Mudra 13: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva of a Thousand Eyes and a Thousand Arms’ Mudra of Unobstructed Eloquence

Place the backs of the two hands together and join them, extending the thumbs forward.

This mudra can protect oneself and others. One must establish a boundary wherever one travels. Empower either pure water or clean ashes seven times. At one’s dwelling place, take the ashes in a cupped hand. First scatter them upon one’s own body, then scatter them according to the Dharma toward the four cardinal and four intermediate directions.

If a good man or good woman is harmed or disturbed by evil ghosts, deceptive spirits, or malign entities, take a pomegranate branch and a willow branch, silently recite this mantra, and gently strike the sick person. There will be no illness that is not cured. The mantra is:

“Namo Tát bà bột đà, đạt ma, tăng kỳ tỳ-gia. Namo A lợi gia bà lô cát đế nhiếp phạt la tả, bồ đề tát đa bà tả. Namo Bạt chiết la bà ni tả, bồ đề tát đá bà tả.

Đát điệt tha: Đồ tỉ, đồ tỉ ca gia – Đồ tỷ sa la xà bà la ni, Cấp bá ha”

NAMO SARVA BUDDHA, DHRAMA, SANÕGHEBHYAHÏ

NAMAHÏ ÀRYA AVALOKITE’SVARÀYA BODHISATVÀYA

NAMAHÏ VAJRA PÀNÏÌYA BODHISATVÀYA

TADYATHÀ: DHUPE DHUPE KÀYA – DHUPE PRAJVALANÏI - SVÀHÀ

This mantra and mudra can subdue non-Buddhist adherents of wrong views. If a good man or good woman recites it once during each of the three periods of the day—early morning, noon, and dusk—it is no different from making every kind of offering to one billion Buddhas. That person will never again receive a female body and, after death, will forever leave the three lower realms—hell beings, hungry ghosts, and animals—and immediately be reborn in Amitabha Buddha’s land. The Tathagata will take that person by the hand and confer abhiseka, saying: “Do not be afraid. Come and be born in my land. In this present body, you will not suffer an untimely death, nor will ghosts and spirits find an opportunity to harm you.”

Mudra 14: The Bodhisattva’s Mudra for Shattering the Great Trichiliocosm and Extinguishing Sin

Stand upright. Extend the left arm forward and spread the five fingers straight out. Next, with the right hand, bend the thumb into the palm and close the other four fingers into a fist. Place it over the opening of the left ear. Recite the Body Mantra while moving the index finger back and forth.

Form this mudra separately during each of the three periods, reciting it seven times in each period. It can extinguish the five rebellious offenses and the four grave offenses. By arousing loving-kindness and compassion toward all sentient beings, one can burn away the roots of every sin. After the dissolution of this body, one will immediately encounter a Buddha. In that Buddha land, one will become a wheel-turning sage-king. One will also attain a dharani called “Immeasurable and Inexhaustible Treasury,” a samadhi called “Equal Wisdom,” and twenty-eight kinds of excellent bodily marks. This body will not suffer diseases of the eyes, tongue, ears, nose, or any other bodily illness; all will be eliminated. Any former sinful karma will also be extinguished.

If there is a drought, combine castor seeds with fine-seeded grass, sesame seeds, and fat to make pellets. Empower them 108 times and cast them into water; rain will immediately fall. If there is excessive rain, burn rice grain to ashes, combine it with thorn-apple seeds and fat to make pellets, empower them 108 times, and cast them into water; the rain will immediately cease.

Mudra 15: The Bodhisattva’s Mudra for Subduing the Hostile Maras of the Trichiliocosm

Interlace the five fingers, with the left pressing upon the right, clench them tightly into a fist, and place it against the crown of the head. Recite the Body Mantra, and they will immediately be subdued.

To perform this Dharma, go before a sarira stupa for twenty-nine days and nights. Grind white sandalwood into powder, mix it into a paste, and coat the ground to create a mandala. Scatter various flowers within it, bathe until clean, put on new and clean garments, and hold an incense burner in the hands, burning agarwood incense. Sit facing east and recite the mantra 1,008 times. This is the initial practice.

Next, mix mustard seeds and black sesame seeds and grind them into powder. Pinch up a small amount with three fingers, empower it once, and cast it into the fire. Do this 108 times each day for seven days. Thereafter, everything one undertakes will be accomplished.

Mudra 16: The Bodhisattva’s Vast Fearlessness Mudra

Stand upright with both feet parallel. First, use the right hand to support the tip of the left elbow. Position the left hand likewise.

Before a sarira stupa, recite the Body Mantra 108 times, and one will immediately attain the gift of fearlessness toward sentient beings.

Also take fennel, white mustard seeds, calamus, and xả đa bà lị. Cast these substances into a fire and burn them. While they burn, remain before a Buddha image or in a pure place, recite the mantra thirty-two times, and make offerings of incense and flowers. All mantra practices will then be accomplished, and everything undertaken will bear fruit.

If another mantra has produced no response, empower it with this mantra, and it too will be accomplished.

If one wishes to seek a dream, recite this mantra, form the mudra, and press it upon the eyes. Whatever one wishes to see will then be seen in a dream.

If a person lacks merit, nothing sought will be obtained. If that person recites the mantra three times each day for a full seven days, all wishes will be completely fulfilled.

At that time, the Bodhisattva was teaching the Dharma in the ocean assembly at the naga palace of Sagara and saw the naga multitudes undergoing great suffering. Out of compassion for the nagas, the Bodhisattva delivered the suffering beings so that they all escaped every affliction and were free from hostile harm.

Then the naga maiden offered a precious jewel equal in value to the Saha world. Seeking the Dharma, she said: “Please explain extensively for me the means of escaping all suffering and calamities.”

At that time, Crystal Bodhisattva, wishing to benefit and preserve this mantra, spoke the following mantra:

Mudra 17: Crystal Bodhisattva’s Mudra and Mantra for Preserving the Thousand-Eyed Practice

“Tỳ ma lê, ma ha tỳ ma lê, úc ha lê, ma ha úc ha lê, hưu ma lê, ma ha hưu ma lê, tát ha lê chỉ lê đệ, cấp bà ha”

VIMALE MAHÀ VIMALE – UD-ÀRI MAHÀ UD-ÀRI – UD-BALE MAHÀ UD0BALE – SAHARI KIRTTI – SVÀHÀ

“If a good man or good woman receives and upholds this Dharma of the Thousand-Eyed and Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva wherever that person travels, I shall always accompany and protect that person. Even the retinues of Mara will not dare to cause disturbance.

“If anyone encounters an urgent calamity, invasion by another country, banditry, or rebellion, that person should tie knots in a five-colored thread, reciting the mantra twenty-one times, with one recitation for each knot, and then wear it on the left arm. Next, close the ring finger, middle finger, and index finger of the right hand into a fist, pressing them against the thumbnail, extend the little finger, and point toward the direction of the enemy. Recite the mantra seven times, and the enemy will disperse and retreat, not daring to inflict harm.”

At that time, while teaching the Dharma in the Snow Mountains, the Bodhisattva contemplated the people in the land of the yakshas and rakshasas, who ate only the blood and flesh of sentient beings and possessed no wholesome intentions. Wishing to benefit them, the Bodhisattva employed skillful means to teach and transform them. Exercising spiritual power, the Bodhisattva traveled to that land and manifested the body of the Thousand-Eyed and Thousand-Armed Subduer of Maras, displayed accomplishment, and formed the Mudra of the Dharani Mother. The king of the rakshasa land then came, bowed his head in homage to me, and made his request. I sealed him with the Accomplishment Mudra, and he immediately attained the unsurpassed Way.

Mudra 18: The Bodhisattva’s Accomplishment Mudra

Stand upright with both feet parallel. Join the palms at the level of the heart and interlace the little fingers, with the left pressing upon the right. Recite the Body Mantra twenty-one times, and everything will be accomplished. If one seeks to aid sentient beings suffering in the six destinies, one should use the Wheel Mudra. Place all ten fingertips against one another, separate the wrists, and open the space within the palms. Then spread the ten fingers approximately one cun apart. This represents the Bodhisattva dwelling within the cycle of rebirth in the six destinies and delivering beings from painful calamities. Turn this mudra, and all beings will escape suffering.

Mudra 19: The Bodhisattva’s Mudra of Perfect Enlightenment

Sit in the full lotus posture. First, extend the five fingers of the left hand, turn the palm upward, and place it upon the left knee. Then extend the five fingers of the right hand, turn the palm downward, and press it upon the right knee.

This mudra is identical to the Dharma-Extinction Mudra. All Buddhas of the past, future, and present attained the Buddha’s bodhi through this same mudra, which can eliminate all karmic obstructions. If, while practicing meditation, the Dharmas do not manifest before one, one should spend seven days and seven nights in an aranya, reciting this dharani and practicing this mudra Dharma.

Wholeheartedly recollect the Buddha and repent during the six periods of day and night. The Dharmas will then manifest before one, and one will acquire immeasurable, boundless, and incalculable merit.

Mudra 20: The Bodhisattva’s Mudra for Summoning the Devas of the Thirty-Three Heavens

First, close the four fingers of the left hand into a fist. Then use the right hand to grasp the left thumb as though making a fist, causing the left thumb to rest within the tiger’s mouth of the right hand with its tip protruding. Move the right index finger back and forth. The mantra is:

“ÁN – Câu trí, Câu trí, Câu gia lợi, già lợi, già lợi, gì la lệ, Tô-bà ha”

OMÏ – KUTÏÌ KUTÏ KUNÕJALI JRÌ JRÌ JARJAYA – SVÀHÀ’

This dharani, mudra, and mantra are inconceivable. If a good man or good woman recites this mantra 108 times before going to sleep, everything wished for in the heart will be seen and known in a dream.

If one can recite this mantra daily, it can also extinguish every sin and arouse the bodhi-mind. That person’s dreams at night will gradually become increasingly expansive and entirely auspicious, until that person dreams of the Tathagata beneath the Bodhi tree bestowing a prediction of attaining the Way. Even Sakra, Brahma, and the devas will constantly come to attend and protect that person.

Mudra 21: The Bodhisattva’s Mudra for Summoning and Protecting the Devas, Nagas, Eight Classes of Beings, Ghosts, and Spirits

Stand upright with both feet parallel. First, bend the left thumb into the palm, close the remaining four fingers into a fist, and place it against the heart. Next, form the right hand in the same way, place it beside the right ear, and move the index finger back and forth. The mantra is:

“Namo Ni càn đà – Namo A lợi xà ba đà, Cấp-bà ha – Namo A lợi xà la, cấp-bà ha – yên hế di hế, cấp bà ha”

NAMO NIKANÏTÏHA

NAMO ALI JAVÀDI – SVÀHÀ

NAMO ALI JARA SVÀHÀ

EHYEHI SVÀHÀ

If a good man or good woman receives, upholds, reads, and recites this mudra and mantra, that person will know the former lives of seven existences. Venomous snakes will be unable to bite or injure that person; poison will naturally be eliminated; blades and clubs will be unable to cause harm; even the king will be unable to become angry with that person; and throughout the kalpa that person will not undergo the sufferings of hell.

When this mantra is recited, the twenty-eight divisions of ghosts and spirits will all come and sit beside the mantra-holder to listen to its recitation.

If a good man or good woman is possessed by a ghostly entity, make a mantra cord from white thread. Recite the mantra once for each knot until forty-nine knots have been tied, then fasten it below the sick person’s throat. The illness will immediately be eliminated.

If an epidemic spreads through the country and many people die, one should take 108 lotus flowers from a pond in the king’s garden. Empower each flower once and cast it into the fire. When all the lotus flowers have been offered, the calamity will immediately be eliminated.

Mudra 22: The Bodhisattva’s Liberation Mudra

Sit in the full lotus posture. First, touch together the tips of the middle finger and thumb of the left hand, turn the palm upward, spread and extend the remaining three fingers, and place the hand upon the left knee. Next, form the right hand in the same manner and place it palm-down upon the right knee. Recite the Body Mantra twenty-one times; every wish will be fulfilled, and all the sufferings of sentient beings will be liberated.

Suppose a good man or good woman has committed the ten evil acts and the five rebellious offenses in such abundance that they equal the minute particles of earth covering Jambudvipa, with each particle representing one kalpa. If that person has committed a thousand offenses for which one must fall into hell and undergo suffering for ten thousand kalpas without any prospect of release, that good man or good woman can go before a sarira image on the fifteenth day of the bright fortnight, abstain from food for one day and one night, form the mudra, and recite the mantra a full 108 times. All the aforementioned offenses will then be extinguished. That they should fail to be extinguished is utterly impossible.

Mudra 23: The Bodhisattva’s Mudra of Mastery of Spiritual Travel

Stand upright. First, use the left hand to grasp the left big toe as though making a fist. Next, use the right hand to grasp the back of the left wrist. Recite the Body Mantra seven times, and even traveling a thousand miles will present no difficulty. Recite the mantra without making a sound.

Mudra 24: The Bodhisattva’s Mudra of Mastery of Spiritual Transformations

First, use the left thumb to press upon the nail of the little finger. Form the right hand in the same manner. Extend the remaining three fingers straight, bring the wrists together, and place them upon the crown of the head. Recite the Body Mantra twenty-one times, and one will attain complete freedom of travel.

Mudra 25: Mudra and Mantra for Invoking the Heart-King of Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva

Join the palms, leaving a hollow space between them. Bring the wrists together and move the two index fingers back and forth. (This is the foremost fundamental mudra of invocation.) The mantra is:

“ÁN – A lỗ lực, đế sái, lộ ca, vĩ xả gia – Tát bà thước đổ-lô, bát-la ma đà na, ca la gia – Hàm phán, Sá ha”

OMÏ – AROLIK TRAILOKA VIJAYA SARVA ‘SATRÙ PRAMADANA KARÀYA HÙMÏ PHATÏ SVÀHÀ

At that time, after Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva had heard the Buddha’s teaching, he rejoiced, faithfully accepted it, paid homage, and withdrew.

THE SUTRA OF THE DHARANI AND SPIRITUAL MANTRA OF

AVALOKITESVARA BODHISATTVA OF A THOUSAND EYES AND A THOUSAND ARMS

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